Cigar-can.



E. B. BICKER.

CIG/1R CAN. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 9, '1914.

Patented Deo. 21, 1915.

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EDGAR B. BICKER, ons'r;riferirsiv MISSOURI, assienon,orioNmHALnToEnNEsr' EI'KHOFF; or sT. Louis; MIsso'URIi Giesemann.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dee.21,1915.

Application led November 9, 1914. Serial No. 871,198.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDGAR B. BICKER, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis, Missouri, 'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar- Cans, of which the following is a specification containing a. full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in cigar cans, wherein the lid is hingedly secured to the can and a movable strip serves to lock the lid in a closed position and also serves as a lever for opening the lid, and the objects of my invention are to provide a cigar can with a hinged lid and to arrange a simple means whereby to lock the lid in a closed position, as well as to facilitate moving the lid to dispense the cigars.

With the above objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, pointed out in my claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a cigar can embodying my improvements; Fig. 2 is an inverted, sectional plan, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of the can, showing the lid in an open position; Fig. 4 is a fragmental cross-sectional elevation taken on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional elevation illustrating the hinge.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings: 6 designates the can, which is preferably constructed of sheet metal in the conventional cylindrical'form and provided with a bottom 7 secured in place by crimping, and with an inturned bead 8 at its upper margin and adjacent the inturned bead 8 I form through the body of the can a slot 9.

The numeral 10 designates the lid, which is preferably sheet metal of disk form and provided with a down-turned peripheral flange 11, which when the lid is closed loosely surrounds the can body so that it may be readily lifted thereover.

A portion 12 of the flange just referred to is of greater length than the balance of the flange so that it may be extended through the slot 9 in the can body and bent to act as a hinge connection between the lid and can. Formed through the flange of the lid immediately over the hinge portion 12 thereof is a slot 13, and struck from the lid are the spaced pairs of ears 14.

Supported upon the ears and arranged to slide therebetween and through the slot 18 is a strip 14a of relatively inflexible material, preferably sheet metal, having its one end provided with an upturned bead 15 and its opposite end with a hook 16, the upturned bead providing means for moving the strip and the hook providing means, in conjunction with the bead 8 of the can, for securing the lid in a closed position.

In order to limit the movement of the strip to prevent its complete withdrawal from the lid, I provide the lateral lugs 17 adjacent the hook ends of the strip which will engage the ears struck from the lid.

When the can is filled the lid is closed and the strip moved so that its hooked end 16 will engage beneath the bead 8 of the can, thereby locking the lid closed and tending to obviate the breaking of labels, revenue stamps and the like, adhesively secured over the lid and can sides.

To open the can the upturned bead 15 of the strip is engaged and through it the strip moved, disengaging the hooked endy 16 from the bead 8 of the can, its withdrawal being limited by the lateral lugs 17 and its withdrawn end utilized as a lever for tilting the lid on its hinge to an o-pen position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters VPatent of the United States is 1. In combination with a can having a flanged lid, hingedly connected with the can, the flange having a slot therein, guides struck from the lid in line with said slot, and a member arranged to slide through said guides and slot to extend beyond the body of the can, substantially as shown and for the purposes stated.

2. In combination with a can having near its top an internal projection, a lid, and a soV slotted hinge connecting the lid With the can, name to this specification, in presence of two a, member slidably carried by the lid for subscribingzwltnesses. ,47, movement in the Vslotof said hingeand ar- Y EDGARVB. BICKER.

ranged to engage the internal projection of Witnesses.: i 5 the can, for the purposes stated. v E. L. WALLACE,

In'testimony whereof, I have signed my G.`ORWIG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each'by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

